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Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Adrian Karatnycky Foreign Policy, July 11, 2023 “Obama’s Russia policy, including his embrace of the doctrine of Kremlin escalation dominance, has continued to shape U.S. policy during the Trump and Biden administrations.”   In an interview with Times Radio in May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s MI6, observed that “the policy that [U.S. President Barack] Obama followed […]

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Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

David Samuels Tablet, Aug. 2, 2023 “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism.” There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, […]

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Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Michael Ginsberg American Greatness, July 21, 2023 “What does [Obama] offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial – it’s central to an effective war strategy.” Barack Obama succeeded. He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform […]

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Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Mark Dubowitz Tablet, Jan. 9, 2023 “Obama’s big Iran play was neither ‘values-driven’ nor purely pragmatic.” The eventual fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran will reveal the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement to have been one of the worst unforced strategic errors in the history of U.S. foreign policy. At home, the Islamic Republic is […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Statement by PM Netanyahu:  Prime Minister’s Office, July 25, 2023 — “Dear citizens of Israel, I would like to begin with the most moving scene that I have witnessed in the past 24 hours. Last night, masses of Israelis came to demonstrate in favor of the reform and against the reform. On one side of […]

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Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Dov Lieber WSJ, July 28, 2023 “… right-wing governments that have been in power since the late 1970s have never been able to fully carry out their vision because the Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down major legislative priorities.”   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition scored a major victory this week when it passed the first part […]

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Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Alex Traiman JNS, July 24, 2023 “… prior to the formation of the current government, several opposition leaders, including Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman and Gideon Sa’ar, have all spoken out in favor of judicial reform.”   Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in […]

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Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Shayndi Raice WSJ, July 26, 2023 “Legal scholars say petitioners would have to prove several things in order for the court to strike down the law. Opponents would have to prove that the law undermines the core values of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. They could also try to prove that there were […]

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Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Jeff Seidel Israel Hayom, July 28, 2023 “With a deep-rooted historical and emotional connection to Israel, should American Jews have a say in what happens in the Jewish state? Perhaps they should, given the implications of Israeli policy for Jews worldwide. However, since they don’t directly bear the consequences of these policies, maybe their involvement […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, August 2nd 2023 / Tuesday, August 1st 2023

MEDIA-OCRITIES  It’s Mayday for the Jewish People:  Ronald S. Lauder, World Jewish Congress, July 25, 2023 The following message by WJC President Ronald S. Lauder has been published today in The New York Times and will also appear this week in other major U.S. and Israeli publications: “We, the Jews of the diaspora, usually refrain from meddling in […]

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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

The Fall of the Ivory Tower: American Education Is Failing:  Everett Piper, Washington Times, July 23, 2023 American Anthropological Association Boycott of Israel will be to its Detriment – Opinion:  Asaf Romirowsky, Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2023 Ethnic Studies Group Is Teaching Anti-Israel Hatred; Some School Districts Are Saying Yes:  Max Samarov, Algemeiner, July 19, […]

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Tuesday, August 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Everett Piper Washington Times, July 23, 2023 “At this university, we will teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge.”   This past week, Gallup released a poll showing public confidence in American higher education is plummeting. A national survey conducted in June found that […]